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25 Aug 2013, 05:27

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Setting up the new ActionBarCompat in Android Studio

Continuing from my previous post, I’m toying around with a couple new projects, and I wanted to use some of the new compatibility libraries that Google’s offering for Android. Unfortunately, the setup is a bit involved, and the instructions are a bit scattered. I figured that it might be worth collecting them in a quick post. My main source of this info was the following DevBytes video:

How to

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Create a new project in Android Studio. I’ll skip the long explanation here, but if you have trouble with it, check out my previous post, it should get you going.